I admit that I don't remember much about reading the book other than that I had a hard time getting into it. I'm pretty sure the exposition and patois turned me off, as can happen with fantasy worlds such as this. The reason I'm confused on it is because I know I read it at a time in my life when I (foolishly) never gave up on a book. I always read through to the end. I value my time more now and am ruthless when it comes to dropping books that don't reel me in quickly. But I guess there's a chance that I simply gave up on Dune and don't remember it.
I've tried to watch the Lynch movie several times but I can only get a few minutes into it before turning it off. And I never bothered with the miniseries. I guess the story just doesn't do it for me.
The book is 412 pages, and I read 105 pages. After only 75 pages, I was already bored with it and annoyed. On page 105 is when Yueh brought down the shield wall and had his little talk with the Duke about the poisoned tooth. The reason I did not read forward is because earlier I was still bothered with the fact that Emperor Shaddam IV had been in power 57 years, and that the Atreides family ruled Caladan for "27 generations". How is this society advanced? And why was Princess Irulan in the story at all? She literally had no part of anything. She had less importance than the flying suspensor lamps.